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Bowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers), 1848-1933. Richard Rogers Bowker Papers, 1856-1958.

Title: Richard Rogers Bowker Papers, 1856-1958.

Records consist of general and family correspondence, personal papers, subject papers, writings and speeches, diaries and travel journals, financial records, papers of Bowker's father, Daniel Rogers Bowker, scrapbooks, photographs, printed matter, and memorabilia. Papers of Daniel Rogers Bowker consist of correspondence concerning business and family matters and patent papers, 1893-1895, for improvements to grain storage warehouses. Collection contains personal and political scrapbooks, 1868-1958; photographs; printed matter with issues of various newspapers, political material, pamphlets, and clippings; and memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: 61 linear feet (126 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122486386 View

United States. Library of Congress. Copyright Office. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1900-1943.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1900-1943.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from Thorvald Solberg, Register of Copyrights, U. S. Library of Congress.

ArchivalResource: 38 items (70 leaves + 2 circulars).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155894851 View

Ward, Lester Frank, 1841-1913. Correspondence, 1865-1913, "Savage" to "Sullemand".

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1913, "Savage" to "Sullemand".

Letters from correspondents "Savage" to "Sullemand".

ArchivalResource: Approximately 2,500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122546016 View

Cutter, Charles A. (Charles Ammi), 1837-1903. Letters received, 1880-1883.

Title: Letters received, 1880-1883.

Letters from Cyrus Hamlin, Thorvald Solberg, Stephen Buttrick Noyes and others regarding Cutter's classification system.

ArchivalResource: 10 items in binder ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166325294 View

Donald Barker Papers, 1902-1922, 1913-1914

Title: Donald Barker Papers, 1902-1922 1913-1914

ArchivalResource: 197 catalogued items

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt687004w1 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Thorvald Solberg Papers, 1882-1949, (bulk 1897-1930)

Title: Thorvald Solberg Papers 1882-1949 (bulk 1897-1930)

Register of copyrights. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, drafts of copyright legislation, speeches, articles, books, biographical and bibliographical material, financial records, notebooks, photos, and printed matter relating to Solberg's duties as register of copyrights and his efforts to protect literary rights in America and abroad.

ArchivalResource: 4,100 items; 13 containers; 5.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013111 View

Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records

Records of Houghton Mifflin Company and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business.

ArchivalResource: 64 linear feet (165 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00009/catalog View

Brown, Philip G. Copyright registration for the diary of a soldier in the Philippines : Washington, D.C. : DS, 1901.

Title: Copyright registration for the diary of a soldier in the Philippines : Washington, D.C. : DS, 1901.

No. 21195 of Class A. XXc for a book printed privately at Portland Maine in 1901. Printed signature of Herbert Putnam (Librarian of Congress) and original signature of Thorvald Solberg.

ArchivalResource: 1 item in 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215278100 View

Solberg, Thorvald, 1852-1949. Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1884.

Title: Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1884.

Letter of 18 August 1884 is accompanied by three pages of bibliography on Hamlet and by a letter of 4 August 1884 from J. Hubley Ashton, introducing Thorvald Solberg to Horace Howard Furness.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (7 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155884136 View

The Nation, records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Title: The Nation records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Records of the weekly magazine, The Nation, primarily during the editorship of Freda Kirchwey.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (42.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00189/catalog View

Rider, Sidney S. (Sidney Smith), 1833-1917. Papers, 1900-1912.

Title: Papers, 1900-1912.

Correspondence relating mostly to books and their sale; with some personal letters as well.

ArchivalResource: 150 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122450431 View

Cheyney, Edward Potts, 1861-1947. Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1892-1934.

Title: Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1892-1934.

Includes 12 items from Lea, several letters from Cheyney to Arthur Lea and from Arthur Lea to Cheyney, plus a letter dated December 21, 1909 from Cheyney to J. G. Rosengarten and one dated February 6, 1911 from Thorvald Solberg, Register of Copyrights at the Library of Congress, to Arthur Lea.

ArchivalResource: 72 items (87 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63554260 View

Richard Rogers Bowker papers, 1856-1958

Title: Richard Rogers Bowker papers 1856-1958

Records consist of general and family correspondence, personal papers, subject papers, writings and speeches, diaries and travel journals, financial records, papers of Bowker's father, Daniel Rogers Bowker, scrapbooks, photographs, printed matter, and memorabilia. General correspondence reflects R.R. Bowker's business affairs as well as his interest in tariff reform, free trade, copyright law, library science, civil service, and political reform. Other materials include family correspondence, 1857-1932; personal papers containing items such as childhood letters, school reports, family records, and letters of condolence; and subject papers relating to copyright, the Edison Electric Illuminating Co., free trade and tariff reform, and his biography. Also, letterbooks for the period from 1875 to 1913; Bowker's writings and speeches; diaries, 1859-1932; and travel journals from the 1860s to 1926 for trips in the United States, the West Indies, Europe, the Near East, and around the world in 1898. Financial records include accounts for personal and some business expenses, bank books, cancelled checks, and personal ledgers, 1893-1910.

ArchivalResource: 61 linear feet (126 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/355 View

George Haven Putnam papers, 1887-1930, 1914-1930

Title: George Haven Putnam papers 1887-1930 1914-1930

George Haven Putnam (1844-1930) was a publisher and author best known for his commitment to the establishment of national copyright legislation in the U.S. and to American adherence to the international copyright Convention of Berne. After serving in the U.S. Civil War, he entered his father's publishing house, G.P. Putnam's Sons. He assumed the presidency of the firm in 1872 and became an authority on the legal implications of copyright. In 1886 he formed the American Publishers' Copyright League and the English Speaking Union in the U.S. Collection consists of correspondence, minutes and printed matter relating to Putnam's efforts to establish and improve copyright legislation in the U.S. Correspondence, 1888-1930, concerns activities of the American Publishers' Copyright League (absorbed into the National Association of Book Publishers in 1922). Also, minute books, 1887-1914; clippings about copyright matters; and government publications. There is a small amount of material pertaining to Putnam's involvement with the Allies Bazaar, a group dedicated to raising money for the French and British war efforts in 1916; and to the publication and distribution of Putnam's book The Censorship of the Church of Rome (1906-1907).

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet (18 boxes and 5 v.)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2507 View

Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930. George Haven Putnam papers, 1887-1930, bulk (1914-1930).

Title: George Haven Putnam papers, 1887-1930, bulk (1914-1930).

Collection consists of correspondence, minutes and printed matter relating to Putnam's efforts to establish and improve copyright legislation in the U.S.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet (18 boxes and 5 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122431660 View